Quote Originally Posted by MtnBikerChk View Post
I was doing a charity ride in Southern CT and there happened to be a stop sign at the top of a hill with blind spots on the right and left. Sucks but yeah you get to the top and you stop.

Well some a-hole behind me yells "You don't stop at the top of a hill!"

I yelled back "You stop if you don't want to get your a$$ run over!"

It really just gets me so mad that people don't have enough respect for themselves, other riders or drivers to follow the rules of the road. It's for YOUR OWN SAFETY. And yet it's people like me who get hit by cars?! Oh the irony......
Without knowing the hill in question, sometimes this is a real dilemma. I almost ALWAYS stop, but I came close to being flattened last year when I came to a stop sign at the top of a steep hill in the rain, with no flat spot to stop at the crossing. It was either keep going and risk the cars - which as it turned out there was one - or slip down the hill, possibly get injured in the fall, and even if I was fine, have to do it all over again and make the same decision again. There was no way I was going to stay upright if I tried to put a foot down.

There are some places where you have to blame the traffic engineers and just make the best decision you can under the circumstances, which sometimes turns out to be drastically wrong. I was just lucky.